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The Payroll Tax and the Public Airwaves: What's It All About?
February 17, 2012 by Josh Levy
Congress just voted on a bill that extends the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. A significant provision will determine the future of a large portion of the public airwaves, or spectrum. That the New York Times gave this issue — ordinarily covered only in tech journals — front-page treatment speaks volumes.
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Mike D: Fighting for Your Right to Get Online
February 15, 2012 by Amy Kroin
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission offered no bonbons and forget-me-nots for AT&T this Valentine’s Day. On Tuesday, the SEC told AT&T and other telecoms that they must include a resolution supporting wireless Net Neutrality in annual shareholder ballots. The SEC found no merit in AT&T’s claim that such a resolution would “interfere with its network management practices and seriously impair its ability to provide wireless broadband service to its customers.â€
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The SOPA/PIPA Money Trail
February 7, 2012 by Josh Levy
Before the Web blacked out to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) — the Internet-censorship bills that faced massive opposition online — there was another SOPA blackout. This one came courtesy of the TV news networks, which almost uniformly ignored SOPA and PIPA until it was impossible not to.
A Media Matters report showed that in the run-up to Jan. 18, when Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and other big sites joined millions of Internet users in one of the biggest online protests to date, only CNN mentioned SOPA and/or PIPA in its nightly news coverage.
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